YouTube kills the 301+ view count, claims it can auto-filter robots

In a short infographic on the subject, YouTube said it was incapable of separating bots from actual viewers, leading to the 301+ situation. Essentially, the view count would be halted while YouTube remove bot views.

For large channels, this sometimes took a full day, leading to many commenters asking how the video could have 301+ views but thousands of comments. Thankfully, that question need ever be asked again with the new change.

Most of 2014 and 2015 was YouTube fixing bottlenecks in the system to offer a faster and efficient video service. Having an authentic view count will not only improve clarity for viewers, but should offer better analytics for channels on what worked and what didn’t.

It will also remove the ability to boost a video view count, to possibly have it featured on YouTube’s curated pages. Let’s just hope content creators don’t see a drastic drop in viewers with this new system.